Computer Code Study of Asteroid Entry into Venusian Atmosphere: Pressure and Density Fields

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Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997stin...9899133s&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, NASA/CR-97-206731; NAS 1.26:206731; Memo-9-5570-RMS-003/98 Boeing Shock Physics

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Computer Programs, Asteroids, Venus Atmosphere, Pressure Distribution, Density (Mass/Volume), Data Bases, Atmospheric Effects, Cratering, Estimating, Flow Distribution, Frequency Distribution, Gas Flow, Infrared Imagery, Mercury (Planet), Moon, Mars (Planet), Size Distribution, Solar System, Transferred Electron Devices

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Analysis of the cratering records on the Moon, Mercury, and Mars have shown similar size-frequency distributions of craters produced during the late heavy bombardment of the inner solar system (Strom, 1988). Venus provides a valuable data base of information on the impacting population for more recent time. Because of resurfacing events, the Venusian cratering record has been estimated to be only about 500 million years old, and for the most part is in pristine condition, thereby producing an opportunity to discover the properties (size/velocity distribution) of the objects that recently impacted its surface. The Magellan IR mapping of the Venusian surface has produced an extremely high-quality set of crater topographies. The observed deficit of small craters is qualitatively explained by atmospheric effects on impactor breakup and the retardation effects of pressure on crater formation. Information about resurfacing history and impactor flux population can only be conjectured using arrant approximations for atmospheric effects on crater size scaling, such as assuming the absence of pressure effects or using other ad hoc approximations for this dependence. The recent work by Ivanov et al.(1986; 1992); Phillips et al.(199 1; 1992); Schaber et al. (1992) and others support the notion that atmospheric effects may have strongly influenced the Venusian cratering record. The work reported here looks at the potential synergism of aerodynamic entry and the gas dynamic flow fields that govern during the time scale and in the vicinity of crater formation.

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